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I'm a covid icu nurse, it's all memes. I had it and slept a lot, scratchy throat, bad headache a couple days. Was up and running again after a bit over a week. Never even went to the doctor. Same thing with my coworkers who caught it. Some said it was pretty rough, almost as bad as the flu. One said it was mild but she totally lost her sense of smell and it didn't come back until 3 weeks later. It's a real virus but it's not dangerous or deadly unless you are a person who shouldn't be living anyway. Only fatasses with heart failure and kidney problems and/or diabetes really seem to suffer from it. The pulmonary edema surprised me a few times how quick it came on, but of course that's all shifting pressures and shit on top of shitty baseline cardiac output. Just a little pink bloody foam in the tube, suck it up, strap them to the bed, and slam a little fentanyl and versed and they hold on another 10 hours or so. Day shifts problem at that point. I already hated fat and ord people but it's really hard to be compassionate towards the very pieces of shit who are responsible for crashing the economy, making everything shut down early, and inconveniencing me on an unimaginable scale. Half the time I go straight for restraints and sedatives. Yeah opioids are first line treatment and you still feel pain when tied down or sedated, but that's what I want. I feel like there should be consequences. Half the worthless piece of shit won't even pay the full hospital bill so I really feel no obligation to go beyond keeping their useless ass alive long enough to hand off to the next shift.